Huskee compact



. J. RUSSELL;

Improvement in Corn HuskerRollers. No.12'3,580; Patented Feb.13,1872.

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JACOB RUSSELL, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN O. K. CORN- HUSKERCOMPANY, OF GREENWIOH, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CGRN-HUSKER ROLLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,580, dated February13, 1872.

SPECIFICATION. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that .I, J noon RUssELL, of Brooklyn, Kings county, State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rollersfor Husking Corn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulldescription of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in makin g the rollers hollow,with.pe1forations through their sides and end openings, so that theywill, as they rotate, produce an exhaustion of air in the cylinders, andthus suck in through the side perforations the silk and husk to assistin freeing it from the corn. Also, in combination with the huskerrollers the series of huskerpins having their ends crossed or markedinto points or teeth to enable them to seize the husk readily and yetnot injure the kernel of corn.

But to describe my invention more particularly, I will refer to theaccompany drawing forming a part of this specification, the same lettersof reference wherever they occur referring to like parts.

Figure l is a plan view of a pair of rollers as they appear whenarranged in the machine. Fig. 2 is an end or transverse section of thesame through the line a; m, Fig. 1,and showing their relation to theguide-strip of the huskertrough as it appears in the husker-machine.Fig. 3 is a longitudinal cut section of the roller. Fig. 4. is an endview of the same.

LctterA represents the husker-rollers, which are made of metal. Theserollers are hollow cylinders, the shell only being of sufficientthickness to insure strength enough for the duty required of them. Totheir upper ends are secured cog-wheels B, which gear together, and areboth rotated by the propelling cogwheels of the husker-machine, asdescribed in my patent of March 21, 1871, for an improvedhusker-mach'ine. Through the sides or shell of these rollers, atopposite sides thereof, are out three or 'more cone-shaped holes, 0, of

'about half an inch diameter at the base by about one-quarter of an inchdiameter at their apex. The object of cutting these holes entirelythrough the shell and of the conical form, as set forth, is to produce acurrent of air through them to the interior of the rollers inconsequence of their rapid rotation, forcing it out of the cylindersthrough the openings D at their lower ends. This effect will be obvious,as the cross-bar E, for supporting the journal F at the lower ends ofthe rollers, acts somewhat like a propeller to force the air away fromthe end of the roller, and thus by dis turbing its equilibrium cause adrawing in of it through the holes 0. By this means the silk and fibrousparts of the husk are drawn into the holes so as to enable the impingingsurfaces of the rollers to readily seize and strip it from the ear ofcorn, while the coarser or outer leaves of the husk are torn intofragments by pins Gin the surfaces of the rollers arranged in theopposing rollers, so as to be oppositethe holes O,'that the whole may besimultaneously stripped before the car can escape from the trough H. Tofacilitate the action of the pins to tear open the husks their ends areindented so as to present a hatched or roughened face, and thus causethem to take hold of the husks readily, which, owing to their shortness,is not always practicable where they are flat-faced, as is the case withall the pins heretofore used in the face of huskerrollers. Thearrangement of these rollers in the machine is the same as in myimproved husker patented 21st March, 1871, wherein one of the rollersforms the bed of the husker-trough, the other roller one side ofit,'while the opposite side of it is a guide-strip,"described in my saidpatent of the 21st March, 1871, and indicated by the letter 1). Asillustrating the arrangement of my improved rollers in thehusker-machine, an end view of the guide-strip is shown in Fig. 2; but,as being no part of the inven tion, has not been considered necessary tobe shown in the model.

Having now described my invention, 1 will set forth what I claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. I claim thehollow cylinders or huskerrollers having the conical-shaped perforationsthrough their sides and openings at their lowerends, substantially asdescribed and for-the purposes set forth.

2. Ialso claim the combination of the rollers described, to form ahusker-trough, as set A with pins G, when said pins are indented forth.

or roughened on their ends, constructed and i J A0013 RUSSELL.

operating substantially as set forth. Witnesses:

3. I also claim the combination of the two cylinders having conical sideperforations, CHARLES L. BARRITT,

end openings, and indented pins therein, as FRANKLIN BARRITT.

